An AI teammate you rent, or a system you own?
Lindy is a capable AI teammate. ACE is the executive who builds your system and hands you the keys. Here is the five second version, then the receipts.
Lindy
An AI teammate you rent by the seat, working in your team's everyday tools on a shared pool of credits.
Caddy ACE
A fractional AI Chief Executive who builds digital labor in accounts you own, trains your team and hands you the keys in 90 days.
A teammate makes your team faster. A system you own changes how the business runs. Match the purchase to the problem you actually have.
How do Caddy ACE and Lindy actually compare?
Eight rows, no fine print. The green column is the one you keep.
| Lindy | Caddy ACEYou keep this | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Teams that want an AI teammate in their everyday tools | Operations-heavy businesses doing $2M+ a year |
| What you buy | Seats on a subscription, plus a shared pool of credits | A 90-day engagement with a fractional AI Chief Executive |
| Who builds it | Your team: connect the tools, set it up, keep it running | We do: find the highest-value work, build it, stress-test itThen we train your team to run it |
| The AI underneath | Models on Lindy's side, metered in credits | Your own enterprise AI plan, at the admin level |
| Your data | Flows through Lindy's cloud | Deployed in accounts you own |
| Cost shape | Per-seat tiers plus credits; overage bills at 2x the standard rate | One scoped project, the number known up front |
| Stop paying | The teammate and what you built in it are gone | The system stays. Your accounts, your keys |
| Accountability | A software subscription | A weekly written report, and a value scorecard in dollars at day 90 |
Lindy product and pricing facts from lindy.ai, lindy.ai/pricing and docs.lindy.ai, rechecked September 2026; reviewer sentiment from G2 (171 reviews), retrieved August 2026.
What do seats, credits and overages cost over time?
A metered teammate bills every unit of work from one shared pool, and when the pool runs dry, their own docs say Lindy pauses until the next billing cycle, unless you buy a top-up, upgrade, or switch on overage at 2x the standard rate. Ownership does not care how much you use it.
Renting: seats plus credits
The most tagged complaint in their largest review pool: expensiveOwning: a 90-day build
One scoped project up front, then your own AI plan. We add no meterIllustrative shapes, not pricing. Each panel is drawn on its own scale.
Which one fits your problem?
We will be straight with you. For some problems, Lindy is the right size.
Choose Lindy if…
- Your team wants an AI teammate in its everyday toolsThat is exactly what it is built for.
- You want to experiment this weekNo scoping conversation. Just a subscription, and its meter.
- The tasks are simple and repetitiveIts G2 reviews agree it is strongest inside that lane.
- Someone on your team will own itA teammate still needs a manager: someone to set it up, check its work and keep it running.
Choose Caddy ACE if…
- The work is the operation itselfQuoting, follow up, reporting, collections, the back office.
- Nobody has time to drive AIYou don't have to figure it out. We find the work, build it and train your people.
- You want to keep what you buildTeach a subscription your procedures and you rent them back.
- You want the result measuredA written report every week, and a value scorecard in dollars at day 90.
Lindy makes your team's day lighter. ACE makes your business worth more.
Caddy vs Lindy, asked and answered.
Is Caddy ACE just a bigger Lindy?
No. Lindy is software: an AI teammate your team rents by the seat and points at the work itself. ACE is a 90-day engagement: a fractional AI Chief Executive finds your highest-value work, builds the digital labor for it in accounts you own, and trains your team to run it.
Doesn't Lindy work for the whole team now?
Yes. Lindy now sells seats that share one pool of credits, with a shared Lindy in team channels and a private one for each person. The difference is who decides what to automate and builds it: with Lindy, your team does; with ACE, we do, in accounts you own, and your team is trained to run it.
Which one is cheaper, Lindy or Caddy ACE?
Lindy is cheaper this month. It is a per-seat subscription on a shared pool of credits, and Lindy's own billing docs say overage bills at 2x the standard credit rate. ACE is one scoped project with the number known up front, and afterward the system runs on your own AI plan, with no seats or credits from us.
Can a business start with Lindy and move to Caddy ACE?
Yes. The habits transfer. The equity does not: what you build inside a subscription stays behind when you leave. Everything ACE builds lives in accounts you own, and your team is trained to run it.